Yes, they did. "Pinning" folders the desktop is a band-aid work-around to "fix" the problem created when they "new and improved" the 2016 Recent "Pain" <sic>
Someone at MS had a brain-spasm. Then they were able to sell that idea to management at MS and we got the "new & improved" version of Recent pane. No more pinning folders to the pane and changed sort order to date rather than alpha. Lots of negative feedback
on both ... For everyone on this question, if you don't like these changes, complain to MS. This forum is no longer the place to do that. MS has setup subsites on the UserVoice forum to accept user change requests and bug reports. There are real MS staff
and management monitoring the suggestions. And there is proof that they have acted on a few of them!
"UserVoice.com" - MS Suggestion box sites
You can use the Office or Windows 10 "feedback" (**)applets but then your suggestions just fall into a black hole. You get no feedback from MS about your feedback.
A better place to submit this type of feedback the "UserVoice" forum. You can submit suggestions like this to the forum either by "voting" and commenting on a similar existing suggestion or by creating a new suggestion for
others to vote and comment on.
It is also a good idea to provide cross posted links.
Put a link back to this answers.com posting on UserVoice, and add a reply here with a link to your specific posting on UserVoice.
Here are some existing suggestions on the subject. Please "vote" for them and add your comments about the negative impact of these changes
Recently Used List Sort order: Date vs Alpha as of Feb 22, 2016
10 votes https://word.uservoice.com/forums/304924-word-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/10137741-recently-used-list-sort-order-date-vs-alpha
144 vote https://excel.uservoice.com/forums/304921-excel-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/10261443-recent-files-pane-in-excel-2013-was-pretty-good-b
Excel Suggestion “Under review” Nov 25, 2015 (wow, fast action)
Reinstatement of the option to Pin Folders at:https://word.uservoice.com/forums/304924-word-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/12582018-restore-pinned-folders-in-save-options-in-all-offi
or add your own new suggestion:
This next link has a longer collection of MS UserVoice.com sites:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wiki/windows_10-desktop/ms-suggestion-box-sites-at-uservoicecom/7397119c-6d48-49e6-8d94-7bd0a50d214f
Go to UserVoice, either through specific links I’ve provided below or create your own suggestions there. That is where MS is looking specifically for this type of user feedback to bring them back to reality from what-ever lala-land they are working
in when they make these "improvements". Comments (and votes) like these in UserVoice helped to convince MS to roll back the "phat QAT" buttons in 2016
and to at least partially undo the 2016 changes to the way the Pen input works.
Please do copy the comments you've made here and paste them into comments in UserVoice. If you make a new suggestion, copy the link to your suggestion and post it back on this question so other people with the
same problem can vote for it and comment on it. (You’ll get faster action that way.) Please get all of your friends and co-workers who use Office to vote for your issue!
This blog has a picture to show MS really is looking at UserVoice sites:
http://blog.indezine.com/2016/02/powerpoint-feedback-and-uservoice-does.html
https://www.change.org/p/satya-nadella-microsoft-what-computer-users-want-changed-in-windows-10
Here are links to some of my personal “favorite” specific suggestions:
QAT buttons not showing custom imageshttps://office.uservoice.com/forums/285186-general/suggestions/12512571-qat-buttons-not-showing-custom-images
Bring back Picture Manger to the Office Bundlehttps://office.uservoice.com/forums/285186-general/suggestions/12498702-bring-picture-manager-back-to-office-bundle
Bring back all of the old grammar checking rules -https://word.uservoice.com/forums/304924-word-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/10009743-bring-back-the-valuable-style-checking-tools-that
Petition to MS President to allow Windows Home users control Windows Updateshttps://www.change.org/p/satya-nadella-microsoft-what-computer-users-want-changed-in-windows-10 (The matching UserVoice
site has been discontinued by MS)
Don’t want Office 2016 tied to Userid -https://office.uservoice.com/forums/285186-general/suggestions/10517283-allow-activation-without-the-need-of-a-ms-mail-acc
Actually there are multiple threads with same point. As of Feb 1 2016 there are 785 votes on this question in multiple suggestions
ALLOW Activation without the need of a MS mail account. 386 votes
Office 2016 OEM without LiveID account 138 votes
Office 2016 Activation and installation without an email account 172 votes
return to the same process for activating Office 2016 that was used for all previous versions of Office. No "Live" accounts!
26 Votes
The Office 2016 Activation process is impossible for business's that purchase Microsoft licensing OEM. 70 votes
Activation without a live account. 7 votes
Need Office 2016 activation WITHOUT a Microsoft account! 6 votes
Allow Business Admin Portal to manage Office 1-time payment licenses toohttps://office.uservoice.com/forums/285186-general/suggestions/11448504-allow-business-admin-portal-to-manage-office-2016
Improve Highlightinghttps://word.uservoice.com/forums/304924-word-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/9389778-improve-highlighting
Make the full spectrum of colors that are available in Shading also available in Highlighting. I often use Highlighting to mark important or unusual text streams and I would like to search for particular colors of Highlighting .
Visio 365 monthly specifically for Consumer licenses -https://office.uservoice.com/forums/285186-general/suggestions/10936428-visio365-monthly-for-consumer-365-users-and-oth
Recreate the single text margin around page like 2010 and earlier -http://word.uservoice.com/forums/304924-word-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/9253599-bring-back-classic-text-boundaries- Marked as “under Review”, so there is some hope … <grin>
Restore Radial Menu to OneNote439 votes total Feb 20 2016 ****148 votes Include radial menu in desktop onenote
20 votes Radial Menu -
183 votes Bring back the radial fly out menu in the W10 Store version of OneNote -
42 votes Bring back Radial Menu and Camera insert in Windows 10
16 votes- Bring back Radial Menu for Windows 10 App
25 votes- Keep the OneNote Windows 8 UI over the Windows 10 Beta UI
plus a bunch more pen requests
Add mind mapping to OneNote -https://onenote.uservoice.com/forums/327186-onenote-for-windows-windows-phone/suggestions/6160979-mindmap-functionality?page=4&per_page=20
Custom installation from Office 365 (2016) / Return MSI installer option - ****https://office365.uservoice.com/forums/264636-general/suggestions/9939513-custom-installation-from-office-365-2016
Word 2016 Style Pane bug -mouse pointer wrong
https://word.uservoice.com/forums/304924-word-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/11196345-word-2016-style-pane-corrupt-or-buggy-after-update
Add PowerPivot back to Access (and to Excel in all bundles)https://access.uservoice.com/forums/319956-access-desktop/suggestions/10284183-add-pivot-charts-back-to-access
Add BI/PowerPivot back to Excel in all bundles -https://excel.uservoice.com/forums/304921-excel-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/9018823-make-the-power-bi-family-powerpivot-powerquery
'Worksheet' Tabs to Wordhttps://word.uservoice.com/forums/304924-word-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/10024812--worksheet-tabs-to-word
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